A Little Bit Of Adams County Indiana History

    Adams County was organized March 1, 1836, The county was named for President John Quincy Adams.
Samuel Johnson offered as an inducement to have the county seat located on his land, the sum of $3,100, four church lots,
half an acre for a public square, one acre for a seminary and two acres for a cemetery.
He further agreed  to pay the expenses of the locating commissioners,
and furnish a house to hold court in until suitable buildings could be erected.
The county commissioners promptly accepted  the offer "and proceeded to the aforesaid town site,
and marked a white oak tree with blazes on four sides, on each of which they individually inscribed their names. Decatur is the County Seat..
Decatur was probably named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur and in 1849 it had seventy houses (three of which were brick, twenty-one
frame and the remainder of logs) with a population of about 400. Adams County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows:
Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Marys, Union, Wabash and Washington.

Surrounding Counties
Allen County (north)
Van Wert County, Ohio (northeast)
Mercer County, Ohio (southeast)
Jay County (south)
Wells County (west)